Spencer Diamond
Principal Investigator
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolSpencer Diamond is a Principal Investigator at the Innovative Genomics Institute and UC Berkeley with a decade of research experience unpacking how microorganisms control carbon cycling in soils and photosynthetic bacteria regulate metabolism. He combines molecular genetics, biochemistry, high-throughput transcriptomics and metabolomics to translate fundamental microbial physiology into models relevant for climate science and industrial biotechnology. His work has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation and spans leadership roles from postdoctoral researcher to principal investigator. Trained with a PhD in Biology (microbiology emphasis) from UC San Diego and dual undergraduate degrees from UC Berkeley, he bridges deep academic rigor with applied environmental impact. Notably, he has pivoted model-organism expertise—from Neurospora to cyanobacteria—to tackle broad questions about carbon fate across ecosystems. Based in Berkeley, CA, he blends hands-on experimental practice with computational analysis to inform climate-relevant biogeochemical models.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Molecular and Cell Biology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, San Diego
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
bioinformatics8
calculator8
metagenomics8
coverage8
genes6
sequencing5
adapter5
bioconda5
sequence5
fasta5
marker4
python4
genomics3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SDmetagenomics/ETsuite
Nov 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:175 commits, 25 pushes in 2 years
SDmetagenomics/Angelo2019_Paper
Oct 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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